Mike Brooks

"I don't know what weapons the next war will be fought with, but the one after that will be with sticks."
"Because of nukes, right?"
"No, because we decided logistics was woke."

Another day, another stupid Excel chart.

Oh, wait, no. No no no.

Charity commission to help one of my dearest oldest friends. Her daughter has been in pain for years and doctors keep dismissing her. I want to raise some money for a private diagnosis.

I'm going to drop my price for building and painting FW primarchs to £300 or ask me about any other single model.

Been sitting on this news for a while! There's going to be a Children of Time TTRPG courtesy of the amazing folk at Rowan Rook and Decard (Heart, Spire, DIE, Eat the Reich and many more).

...beautiful.

That's AI discourse, over & over:

Tech ppl: AI is awesome! It'll completely destroy your livelihood! Your children will know only poverty and suffering!

Human: Well, that sucks. I'll pass.

Tech ppl: You foolish, ignorant Luddite! You will be obsolete in the new order. Get with the program!

Quite apart from anything else, I've just finished watching the new season of The Lincoln Lawyer and when reading this (horrifying) thread I was unconsciously reading the judge's part in the voice of the actor who played Judge Lionel Stone, which gave it all the more impact.

can this be a solution?

#GNUTerryPratchett

END THIS STUPID WAR.

REGULATE AI.

IMPEACH THE ENTIRE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

EPSTEIN. LET'S PROSECUTE SOME CHILD MOLESTERS.

CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER, CLEAN FOOD FOR ALL.

15. My singular “criticism” of this book is that there are a lot of view-point characters & I struggled to keep track of them all. But I suspect that’s more a me problem.

@mikebrooks668.bsky.social knocks it out of the park again. The world building, characterisation and twists are on point 5/5

Thank you for the kind words!

Thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it :)

If I had a dollar for every time I've had to say "Fiasco, that's very inappropriate actually" I could buy a Mediterranean island

(I also have no intention to use it for anything else, so long as I know where it is, but there's always the risk of it being baked into something without my knowledge I guess. However, I can definitely make sure that it's only me typing words on my computer, and not asking LLMs for "story ideas")

I won't be using the scheme, because it's meaningless, and will also mark my work out as high priority for AI companies to target (since they don't want to feed their own slop to their planet-killing plagiarism machines).

I'll never use generative AI for writing. That's my promise.

Such schemes fall into two categories.

Rigorously policed (how?) therefore good
and
not rigorously policed and therefore misleading and dreadful.

Wickes Tradepro Tool Theft Zone is one of the Crystal Maze levels they weren't allowed to show on TV.

a crab and a lobster are the same creature but one is in landscape and the other is in portrait mode

Fair play, 'the mad emperor started compulsively buying shoes for his court, guessing their foot size & his courtiers were too scared not to wear them even when they didn't fit' is some classic, on the nose End Days Of The Empire stuff

give 'em the old 1 or 2

The trouble with "human authored" stickers is that the AI shills will use them. Those who've displayed zero morality when it comes to theft won't start now.

Best way is to ban AI usage in the arts entirely.

I can assure you I’d guessed the second sentence already!

So sad that 25 years ago we had an Information Superhighway but now we've got like a Disinformation Cancelled Replacement Bus Service

Wait what

there were

sequels?

Yes I’m religious, I believe in the holy trinity.

Lovely that the SoA has done this, but I'm not quite sure, given the apparent mission of this book, why they sent an enthusiastic "AI" user on the Today show to talk about the many ways she uses plagiaristic LLM extruders in her fiction "research"?

Tracy: you're literally stealing our books

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

The Diocese of Oxford has warned against a social media trend in which well-meaning people clean gravestones in churchyards. They say “Many churchyard monuments & gravestones are made from soft stone such as Portland limestone or Bath stone, which can be easily harmed by harsh cleaning techniques.”